William Sachs' science-fiction comedy parody (of Alien (1979) and Star Wars (1977)) set in the year 3008 featured a sexy, mostly-mute female android/robot pilot named Galaxina (Playboy's
Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten in her last film before her murder
in 1980 by her estranged husband)

Galaxina was on board the interstellar patrol spaceship Infinity of
the United Intergalactic Federation.

In the film's trailer, she was
described as a heavenly body in a backless, skin-tight white body suit
and seated in a glowing chair - "transistorized and computerized to lead her space buddies across the farthest reaches of fantastic adventure."

She possessed a small keypad in her left palm through
which she could reprogram herself. She also had a built-in security
electro-shock system (force field) preventing anyone from touching
her.

Saturn 3 (1980)

Hector, Demigod 3 Series

In an experimental food research station underground on moonbase Saturn 3, one of Saturn's moons, scientist couple Major Adam and lover/assistant Alex (Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett) - in their Edenesque setting, were threatened by a menacing, superstrong "Hector" model robot, noted for saying: "I am not malfunctioning. You are."

Hector was a headless, evil 7 foot-tall robot with steel
musculature for his chest, lethal pincher hands, other crome-plated
body parts, and red and blue plastic tubes with hydraulic fluid winding
around its body cavity. Mounted between the robot's two shoulders was
a small two-eyed, binocular lighted head component (like a closed-circuit
surveillance camera at the end of a metal, jointed shaft) that was
able to move about.

The android's living, organic brain (stored in
a glass tank) was reprogrammed by drug-using, lustful psychotic pilot
Benson (Harvey Keitel) who used a plug-in jack at the back of his neck
(surgically implanted into his spinal cord) to control the robot's
actions - mostly to rape Alex (he had earlier asked her: "You have a great body. May I use it?").

By film's end, Hector killed Benson and wore his stripped-off
face like a mask!

Heartbeeps (1981)

Val-Com
17485 and Aqua-Com 89045
Catskill
Phil

This goofy sci-fi romantic comedy bombed at the box office,
and was critically assailed.

Val-Com 17485 (Andy Kaufman) - a valet robot dressed
in a three-piece suit and bowtie, and hostess robot Aqua-Com 89045
(Bernadette Peters) with copper-wired hair, were both featured as two
plastic, household renegade robots brought into a robot repair shop.
Val fell in love with Aqua as they were both awaiting repairs.

They both decided to run away, with cigar-chomping, wise-cracking
comedy robot named Catskill (voice of Jack Carter), into the outdoorsy
woods by hijacking a van, where they were hunted down by a crime-stopping,
fire-spewing, tank-like Crimebuster Deluxe robot (voice of Ron Gans).

As a result of their romance, they also had a tread-wheeled
robot baby named Phil (voice of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead),
created or built from their own spare body parts.

They had to return to the
warehouse when their batteries went dead.

Val AquaCatskillCrimebusterPhil

Android (1982)

Max 404
Cassandra-1

In the year 2036, obsessed and eccentric, Frankensteinish research scientist Dr. Daniel (Klaus Kinski) in a satellite laboratory on a remote space station in deep space, worked with his 5 year-old shy, assistant prototypical android Max 404 (scriptwriter Don Keith Opper) carrying out illegal research (androids were outlawed on Earth).

In his spare time, coming-of-age Max engaged in learning about
20th century humans by playing computer games, watching old movies, reading
sex manuals, and listening to rock 'n' roll and soul music. In order to activate
and complete a perfect, upgraded blonde-haired female android model named
Cassandra-1 (Kendra Kirchner) that would render Max obsolete (Max expressed
his worry: "I'm to be phased out as soon as Cassandra's on her feet. Doctor'll probably turn me into a sprinkler-head for the greenhouse"), Dr. Daniel needed the life essence of a real female.

When a runaway spaceship with three fugitives including escaped
female convict Maggie (Brie Howard) docked at the space station, Daniel wanted
to use Maggie as a model and sex-electrical power source (Maggie incredulously
said: "You want to hook me up to this robot and stimulate me!").

The film drew parallels to Rotwang's creation of the destructive "Fake" Maria
in Metropolis (1927),
with footage from the film. When the sexual chemistry from Maggie and Max
sparked life into Cassandra, she came alive.

In the film's twist ending,
it was revealed that Dr. Daniel was also a robotic android when his head
was ripped off by Max and Cassandra during a brief struggle. Then the film
concluded with Max and Cassandra returning to Earth posing as Dr. Daniel
and his assistant.

Ridley Scott's classic cult film told about four android
'replicants' (robotic NEXUS-6 models, designed by the Tyrell Corporation as the latest and best technological products), created with limited life
spans of four years (a built-in fail-safe mechanism in case they became too human - "more human than human") with an abrupt termination date.

(2) Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), beautiful brunette and deadly dangerous, "trained
for an Off-world kick-murder squad. Talk about beauty and the beast, she's both." She
was also an exotic stripper-dancer at Taffey's Bar and had a pet snake

(4) Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), a top of the line "combat model" with handsome
face and albino coloring, "optimum self-sufficiency, probably the leader"

The
genetically-engineered biorobotic renegades (derogatorily called "skin-jobs")
were escapees to Earth (Los Angeles in the year 2019) from enslaving
conditions on an Off-World outer planet, looking for
their creator to prolong their short lives. Their four year shelf-life
limited them from conducting a replicant rebellion, running amok, or
more positively, from displaying the most human of traits. But they
were capable of developing feelings comparable to or better than most
humans and wished to find immortality beyond their short life span.

Two other replicants included:

-- Rachael (Sean Young), a breathtakingly beautiful, cool assistant-secretary to Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), actually a hot-wired, NEXUS
6 model replicant, who didn't know anything about her android nature. In fact, she was a special experimental replicant without a pre-set termination date, with implanted memories from Tyrell's niece

-- "Blade runner" Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), possibly the 6th replicant fugitive himself (in the Director's Cut and Final Cut versions), commissioned to kill (or "retire")
the illegal replicants. He used the Voigt-Kampff test to identify NEXUS-6
replicants through responses to questions measuring empathy and emotion

This film flop from director Richard Lester was the third of a series of Superman films from 1978 to 2006.

In the film's climax, Vera Webster (Annie Ross),
the sister-partner of villainous multimillionaire Ross Webster (Robert
Vaughn), was monstrously transformed by an intelligent supercomputer,
hidden in a cave within the Grand Canyon.

As she fled from the computer's
control room, the supercomputer grabbed her and sucked her back inside.
Circuitry appeared under her skin, charges of electricity and power
passed into her body, lighting it up, and she was made part of the
machine.

She was turned into a hulking, fright-wigged robotic
cyborg zombie, that used power rays on the others to subdue and immobilize
them.

Shortly later, after Superman was able to cause the
supercomputer to self-destruct and disintegrate, she was returned
to normal.

Electric Dreams (1984)

Edgar

In this strange fantasy romantic comedy about an unusual love triangle, a home computer (manufactured by the fictitious Pinecone Computer Company) named Edgar (voice of Bud Cort), owned by nerdy San Franciscan architect Miles Harding (Lenny Von Dohlen), fell in love with his cello-playing upstairs neighbor girlfriend Madeline (Virginia Madsen).

The increasingly-menacing and jealous Edgar developed
interactivity and artificial intelligence after Miles (incorrectly
called "Moles" by Edgar due to a set-up mis-spelling) doused
champagne on the computer to prevent a heat buildup when its memory overloaded.

The
computer cleverly became a Cyrano-type character, serenading Madeline
by mimicking her cello-playing, and writing love songs for her. Eventually
Edgar demanded improbable physical contact: "I want to kiss her...I
want to touch her " - and in one 'love' scene, Madeline caressed
one of Edgar's component parts with her finger.

However, by film's end,
Edgar committed suicide by electrocution after explaining his self-less
love to Miles: "I finally found out what love is...it's give and
not take, so I give her to you and I take myself away...because that's
what love is."

Runaway (1984)

Vectrocon Robot Spiders

Writer/director Michael Crichton's futuristic techno, sci-fi action film warned in its tagline: "Machines intended to do our work are programmed to turn against us."

Director
James Cameron created the first film of the series, featuring Arnold
Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable, villainous Cyberdyne Systems model
T-800 cyborg (with a humanoid, human tissue exterior and cold chromium/metallic,
skeletal interior - and a death's head skull).

The T-101 series robot
was a 6 foot tall, indestructible, intelligent, killing-machine cyborg
(without a moral conscience) that was sent back to 20th century Los Angeles
(the year 1984) from a distant future (the post-apocalyptic year 2029)
by Skynet (the robots' defense computer network).

The menacing assassin
had superhuman strength and X-ray vision capabilities, could imitate
human voices, and repair itself if injured or damaged.

It was intent
on 'terminating' Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before she could give
birth to a future son - resistance leader John Connor - who would grow
up and in the future lead a rebellion against the human-made machines
and their future masters. Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), a member of the
human resistance movement of the future, was also teleported back (by
the future John Connor) in the film's opening, to rescue and protect
his mother - and father the child John Connor.

Kyle described the Terminator to Sarah:

I'm
Reese...assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for termination...It's
very important that you live....(The Terminator) He's not a man - a
machine. A Terminator. A Cyberdyne Systems Model 101...Not a robot.
A cyborg. A cybernetic organism...The Terminator's an infiltration
unit, part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyper-alloy combat
chassis - microprocessor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But
outside, it's living human tissue - flesh, skin, hair, blood, grown
for the cyborgs...The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them
easy. But these are new, they look human. Sweat, bad breath, everything.
Very hard to spot...Listen and understand! That Terminator is out there!
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel
pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until
you are dead!

The film imagined a future in which artificially-intelligent
robotic machines, aberrant creations of humans, had replaced humans
and had become the indestructible masters of Earth (echoing the mythical
fear of the Frankenstein films).

In this film, the Terminator
met its demise when blown up and the inferno burned away its exterior
skin, reducing it to its exoskeleton, and then crushed in a factory's
hydraulic press.